A Helping Hand for Small Businesses: Health Insurance Tax Credits

This Lewin Group for the Families USA and Small Business Majority report, A Helping Hand for Small Businesses: Health Insurance Tax Credits, analyzes data on business sizes and wages from the U.S. Agency for Health Care Research and Quality and the U.S. Census Bureau. Data were assessed to quantify the number of employers that will be eligible to receive help from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which is designed to provide tax credits that small employers can use toward the purchase of health insurance for their workers. Lewin was also asked to use its Health Benefits Simulation Model to quantify the number of employers that will be eligible for the maximum tax credit.